Another Reddit refugee here,
I think we’re all familiar with the Karma system on Reddit. Do you think Lemmy should have something similar? Because I can see cases for and against it.
For: a way to tracking quality contributions by a user, quantifying reputation. Useful to keep new accounts from spamming communities.
Against: Often not a useful metric, can be botted or otherwise unearned (see u/spez), maybe we should have something else?
What do you all think?
I thought it did already. what are these voting buttons
They apply to the post or comment, but they don’t count to the user at all.
Karma is tied to an account. Just up/down votes on posts does not stick with the account that posted it.